Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World

Milan Babić is Assistant Professor of Global Political Economy at Roskilde University and author of The Rise of State Capital (forthcoming). His work deals with foreign state-led investment and the transformations of the global political economy from a neoliberal toward a post-neoliberal global order. Adam Dixon is Associate Professor of Globalization and Development at Maastricht University. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council research project Legitimacy, Financialization, and Varieties of Capitalism: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe (SWFsEUROPE). Imogen T. Liu is a Ph.D. Candidate at Maastricht University. Her research covers subjects including state capital, financialization, foreign investment, infrastructure development, and the political economy of China.

• Chapter 1: Geoeconomics in a changing global order.- Chapter 2: Balancing dependence: The quest for autonomy and the rise of corporate geoeconomics.- Chapter 3: European Strategic Autonomy: New Agenda, Old Constraints.- Chapter 4: European foreign policy think tanks and "strategic autonomy": making sense of EU's role in the world of geoeconomics.- Chapter 5: The EU as a Geoeconomic Actor? A review of recent European trade and investment policies.- Chapter 6: Geoeconomics and national production regimes: On German exportism and the integration of economic and security policy.- Chapter 7: The geoeconomics of Chinese bank expansion into the European Union.- Chapter 8: Moving forward: Understanding the geoeconomic decade of the 2020s.